ANA reports that Joburg executive mayor Herman Mashaba has questioned whether the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) was fighting to keep corrupt officials in their jobs, or if it was going to work with the City in its efforts aimed at rooting out corruption.  

This came after Samwu on Friday accused Mashaba of “grandstanding” after he announced the imminent arrest of 106 allegedly corrupt officials at the city’s various licensing centres.  Mashaba on Tuesday announced the arrests of four officials and further imminent arrests, adding that the implicated officials had been identified through an anti-graft sweep by the city’s internal corruption-busting unit.  He stated that if Samwu was serious about the fight against corruption in Johannesburg, the union would back the new administration, which was implementing a zero-tolerance approach to corruption.

• Read this report in full at The Citizen
• Read too, Union takes Mashaba to task over crooked city licensing probe, at TimesLive

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